Marie-Rose Turcot 1887-1977

Credit: Centre for Research on French-Canadian Culture, University of Ottawa, Marie-Rose-Turcot archive (P22), Ph22-8 Marie-Rose Turcot in 1922

Born
in Laurierville, Quebec, Marie-Rose Turcot moved to Ottawa around the
age of 20 to work in the civil service. Later, working as a journalist,
Marie-Rose Turcot published in the daily newspaper Le Droit, as well as
in several other weekly and daily publications in Ottawa and Montreal,
sometimes using the pseudonym Constance Bayard. She also worked in
broadcast journalism for the French radio station CKCH in Hull, Quebec.
Turcot was the author of a novel, several collections of short stories,
and poems, and was a pioneer in collecting and publishing
Franco-Ontarian folk tales. She was active in a number of
French-Canadian cultural organizations in Ottawa, including Le Caveau,
as well as in professional associations. She lived in Ottawa for most of
her life, and died in Orléans.

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